U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S COVER-UP DURING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: NEW REVELATIONS, SAYS ANCA
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11:09 ~U 09.12.09
A retired American Foreign Service officer, U.S. Ambassador Arma Jane
Karaer, has revealed a series of shocking revelations about the State
Department’s behind-the-scenes efforts on behalf of Turkey during the
1980s to kill Congressional initiatives commemorating the Armenian
Genocide, according to now public documents circulated today by the
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
The revelations are part of an oral history interview with Karaer,
a foreign service officer who served, among other postings during her
long diplomatic career, as a commercial officer in Ankara and as the
State Department’s senior Turkish Desk Officer.
"We’re circulating Ambassador Karaer’s interview – a truly stunning
example of undisguised cynicism in the face of genocide and denial – as
a public service," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA.
"As painful as her callous remarks are to read, they do – in their
candor – provide powerful insights into the depths to which U.S.
officials have sunk in enforcing Turkey’s genocide denial dictates.
Sadly, it would seem, the pervasive attitude of expediency over
morality characterized by her words remains, even today, much more
the rule rather than the exception among the senior ranks of our
nation’s Foreign Service."